When Michael Beasley plays basketball, he seems like the last person on the planet that would have an issue with self-confidence. The new Los Angeles Lakers forward is an isolation dynamo who has (seemingly) never met a shot he couldn’t get into a whirlwind romance with.
However, such tendencies have also seen Beasley play for seven teams in the last eight years of his career, which he described as leaving him feeling “like a battered-dog” in an incredibly honest and introspective interview with Leo Sepkowitz of Bleacher Report.
The whole experience that has made Beasley incredibly grateful to Lakers president of basketball operations Magic Johnson for taking a chance on him:
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